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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials SEVERAL READERS have suggested that we publish a list of the names and addresses of the county bird recorders and editors. Those who are collating records for special analyses often need such a list and sometimes they approach the wrong persons or else fo...

News and comment

01 March 1967 Comments News and comment Formation of ECHO Institute.--ECHO (L'Institut pour l'Ettregistrement et Etudes des cnants et Cfis d'oiseaux) is a non-profit-making, scientific body recently formed on the initiative of J.-C, Roche for the recording and study of bird voice. One of its ob...

Requests for information

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a...

Notes

01 March 1967 Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper Long-eared Owl Asio otus is the most common owl in Ireland, detailed knowledge of the nature of its food is limited to a single analysis of pellets (L. E. Adams, in Standen 1897). Adams collected these, so far as is known, from the Ballycastle area, Co. A...

Studies of less familiar birds: 143. Subalpine Warbler

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper (Plates 13-16) T H E S K U L K I N G HABITS of the Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans make it difficult to observe. The male is distinctively coloured, however, with unmarked throat and breast of bright chestnut shading to pale pinkish-buff on belly and ...

Nocturnal migration of Thrushes

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper OBSERVATIONS on both day and night migrants, made near Dublin in the autumn of 1952, have already been briefly reported elsewhere (Browne, 1953). Two conclusions on the nocturnal migration of thrushes seem worthy of more detailed consideration. These are ...

Some photographic studies of the American Robin

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 56-59). T H E American Robin (Turdus migratorius) has of course no particular connection with its Old World namesake (Erithacus rubecula), other than a certain similarity in the colour of the breast which doubtless caused the homesick early coloni...

American Robin on Lundy

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper PETER DAVIS (Lundy Bird Observatory). (Plate 59) AN American Robin (Turdus migratorhis) was present on Lundy from October 27th to November 8th, 1952. It was probably first seen on October 25th, by one of the islanders.On the morning- of October 27th I fou...

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